Codidact

Default Community Health Files

This is the default community health files repository for Codidact projects.

Table of Contents

1. Why does this repository exist?
2. Community Code of Conduct
3. Contribution Guidelines
4. Security Vulnerability Disclosure Guidelines

Why Does This Repository Exist?

As the name suggests, this repository is meant to hold the default community health files for the Codidact organization. These default files will be used for any public repository that does not already contain one of these files. For example, while the Codidact Core project has a CONTRIBUTING.md file, the Co-Design project does not. With this repo, anyone who goes to open an issue or a pull request will now see a link to the Codidact contribution guidelines, even though the Co-Design project would normally need its own contributing guidelines file.

We can leverage this functionality to use the repository as a single source of truth for key project files without needed to resort to submodules, scripts, or triggers. This is absolutely essential when you consider that one of the files supported by this functionality is the SECURITY.md file, in which we can delineate the process by which security researchers and developers may discretely (but quickly) report security vulnerabilities in our technology stack. We obviously cannot afford the risk of juggling different versions of files containing critical information like that. That is why this repository exists.

Community Code of Conduct

The original Codidact community code of conduct may be found here. It has been transcribed to this repository to serve as a master record of the official policies and procedures for interacting with and amongst the Codidact community.

Contribution Guidelines

The original contribution guidelines may be found here, but unfortunately they were not as visible as would be ideal, and the Core project is the only project where the guidelines were being displayed when contributors opened new issues and pull requests.

For that reason, this repository will serve as the home of the official Codidact community contribution guidelines.

Security Vulnerability Disclosure Guidelines

Critical security vulnerabilities must be reported quickly and discretely to ensure mitigations are put in place as expeditiously as possible while a patch is developed upstream. We are committed to providing a clear channel of communication to allow security researchers and developers to report potential vulnerabilities as soon as possible.

While our current technology stack has been defined, our project is still in its nascency, and a concrete security is thus being developed in step with a formal organizational hierarchy.

Updates to the project security policy will be made public as soon as they are available.

Community

Questions regarding the Codidact contribution guidelines should be directed to Codidact Team Lead ArtOfCode, Codidact Tech Lead Marc Ranolfi, or Documentation Lead Monica Cellio.

Outright mistakes in the documentation should be blamed on @jflopezfernandez, who upon hearing about them will be disappointed but not surprised, and who will make haste to correct them as expeditiously as humanly possible.